Secretary of Education Betsey DeVos released the long awaited changes to Title IX, set to go into effect in August. There are many things to be concerned about, but given that we are all doing our best to manage all the concerns we’re facing these days…
New information about the prevalence of sexual assault committed by intercollegiate athletes came out this week via a one-year investigation by USA Today. Studying the prevalence of sexual assault in colleges has been notoriously difficult. There is wi…
I am unclear about what motivated this article out of Omaha about the participation of high school girls in sports, but it fails to understand Title IX, its philosophical foundations and application, in ways that I have seen since we began this blog ov…
I won’t bury the lede here: Art Briles has a coaching job.Though to be fair he actually is already coaching. He has a job in Italy as head coach of Florence’s Italian Football League team. (I am pretty sure they mean American football and not soccer. I…
It took me some time to come up with the (somewhat simple) title for this post. I tried to distill what was so furiously frustrating about the fact the Florida State University has hired Kendal Briles as the football team’s offensive coordinator.First,…
..in which people start complaining about how they aren’t allowed to/are shamed for/tired of hearing about listening to Baby, It’s Cold Outside. I get it. I listened to that song growing up too. It’s catchy. It’s part of the canon. It’s part of t…
Almost everyone heard last week about the ban on sports bras for the Rowan University’s women’s cross country team. There was near universal outrage about the prohibition; discussions about the double standards female athletes face, the sexualization o…